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Exercising, even moderately, in mid-day summer heat, you are at risk
for dehydration and, possibly, heat stroke. But your horse is 3 to 10
times more likely to succumb to heat stress than you are. Here's what you need to know to let your horse keep his cool....

There's a reason they call our planet "Mother Earth." With nearly 1 billion tourists
crisscrossing the globe annually, today's Moms find it more
important than ever for their families to minimize their carbon
footprints and reduce the impact they make on the earth's natural and
cultural resources.

How many industrial designers have a world-wide fan club when they are design school Freshmen? Andrew Kim has had one ever since he took on Coca-Cola in his Eco Coke Bottle design, the square-carton, green answer to the Coke bottle and can. Now, Kim is taking on the Google in his design and packaging of Google Vitamin and his simple concept for the Google Vitamin website.

On July 10, a story broke on Techcrunch
inferring that Google was secretly investing
$100-200 million in social media gaming with Zynga,
the online game-maker of Farmville
and Mafia
Wars. While Google becoming a developer of
online games is an interesting venture for the search giant, I think the
bigger story is why?

Flip.to, the comprehensive social media service for hotels and airlines
distinguishes itself from other tools currently available in that it
communicates with hotel guests and airline passengers at time of
booking. In what's called magnetic
marketing, it's the time when the brand and customer are most
attracted to each other, and dispels today's popular belief that
proximity is the best means for rewarding visitors.

Well, it's finally over. The most hyped up, debated, discussed, analyzed
and otherwise overplayed free agency in history is all done. And it may just be
one of the biggest disappointments in sports since...well since LeBron's
last embarrassing choke.

For one day, Americans can forgot about who's dancing around political
issues and join in a bi-partisan dance-off organized through social
media channels. Mark your calendars for July 31 when the first National
Dance Day takes off nationwide, and learn how to 'Flash Mob Dance'
whether you think you can dance or not.

It's a fact - our Millennial children are having little Millennials of
their own. And perhaps not having paid a lot attention to their own role
models - they're struggling with the new job responsibilities.
Marketers and TV execs are using YouTube and humor to portray the angst
and struggle of the latest generation to adjust to their new roles
as first-time parents.

Story-tellers in today's social media milieu seem to have fallen into
the trap of 'working' a story more than 'telling' the story.
Interesting angles have always been the mainstay of good journalism, but
when a story's end play is whether or not it can 'go viral,' that's
when we start to lose focus of what's really important. Critics believe
that's the case with a debate brewing over whether or not Fast
Company is playing fast and loose with 'influencers.'

The prospects for people paralyzed by spinal cord injuries just took a great leap forward, as Japanese researchers have succeeded in restoring the damaged spinal cords of mice using pluripotent stem cells.

We've all been there. Every workplace seems to have one or more
agressive employees or supervisors that behave agressively or rudely on
the job. A new study conducted by a psychologist at the University of Aberdeen in Great Britain, shows how harmful that behavior is to the performance of workers.